Following approval of the business case by Cabinet on 15 July 2014 and further consideration on 11 November 2014, Carole Burgoyne (Strategic Director for People) will submit a report seeking approval of the Section 75 Agreement for the integration of budgets with the Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group for health and social care purposes. 

A background paper (the equality impact assessment) can be accessed at the Council’s website Council and Democracy/Councillors and Committees/Library/Cabinet background papers or using the following hyperlink –

http://tinyurl.com/q3d6bmh

This matter is also being considered by the Caring Plymouth Scrutiny Panel on 5 March 2015 and the outcome will be reported to the Cabinet meeting. 

With reference to minutes 26 and 27of 15 July 2014 and minutes 74 and 75 of 11 November 2014, Carole Burgoyne (Strategic Director for People) submitted a report seeking approval of the Section 75 Agreement for the integration of budgets with the Northern, Eastern and Western (NEW) Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) for health and social care purposes, including draft Commissioning Strategies for Wellbeing, Community Based Care, Complex Care and Children and Young People.  

The report indicated that –

Councillor Evans (Council Leader) reported that the proposals would take effect from 1 April 2015 and would radically transform how health and social care services were planned and delivered, bringing together services such as public health, hospitals, community safety, community health services and children’s services, with the focus being on individuals rather than on the institutions providing the services. 

Councillor McDonald (Cabinet Member for Children, Young People and Public Health) introduced the proposals and emphasised that the new way of working would help to ensure better health outcomes for individuals and greater value for money as health and social care services came together and put prevention at the heart of their services.

Councillor Tuffin (Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care) supported the proposals, emphasized the importance of integrated commissioning and the ‘step changes’ that would be seen when organisations that believed in service to the client group worked very closely together.  He also reported that the Caring Plymouth Scrutiny Panel had considered the proposals on 5 March 2015 and fully supported the recommendations. 

Councillor Peter Smith (Deputy Leader) highlighted that the Section S75 agreement enabled the organisations to pool funds and which would total c. £450m and detailed arrangements had been agreed to safeguard those funds.

Jerry Clough (Chief Operating Officer of CCG and Managing Director, Western Locality), Anna Coles (Project Manager, Transformation),Alex Hurford-John (Programme/Project Support Officer),Nicola Lenden (Transformation Communications Lead), Richard Longford (Head of Communications), Craig McArdle (Head of Co-operative Commissioning),David Northey (Head of Corporate Strategy), Harry Sherwin (Project Manager, Transformation),James Stannard (Project Management Apprentice) and Linda Torney (Assistant Head of Legal Services) also attended the meeting for this item.

Cabinet also heard from Jerry Clough, Tracey Lee (Chief Executive) and Carole Burgoyne (Strategic Director for People) who -     

Alternative options considered and reasons for the decision –

As set out in the report.

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